Homeless Students Would Qualify for Tax Credit Enabling Full-Time School Attendance Washington, D.C. – Congressman Keith Ellison (D-MN) and Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) introduced legislation this week to create the opportunity for low-income students to stay in their low-income housing and attend school full time. Existing law forces such students to attend school part-time, or [...]
The United States and Israel: Aid, Arms, & Legitimated Violence
The United States – Israel relationship is unique. In 1989, Israel was officially designated by the United States as a Major non-NATO ally (MNNA). This has allowed Israel to remain an “unofficial” ally of the U.S. while at the same time conferring them a number of military and economic benefits.
BUY THIS!!!
It’s not like this is anything new, but I wonder how many people notice how often they are being advertised to. For example, there are ads in bathroom stalls, ads on buses, in movies, on television, on the side of the road, in restaurants, in schools, on the internet, while you pump your gas. There [...]
Symbols vs. Substance
By Mumia Abu-Jamal Our national politics is largely the stuff of illusion. It is the stuff of spin. It is the manipulation of images to pluck the heartstrings, or to stoke the furnaces of emotion. Any emotion will do: love, hate, fear, all are but instruments upon which politicians will play to move people to [...]
Obama and the Progressive Base
A reasonably evenhanded biography of Barack Obama, published last year, describes him as “an exceptionally gifted politician who, throughout his life, has been able to make people of wildly divergent vantage points see in him exactly what they want to see.”
Global warming & food choices
Are you stumped by which has a lower carbon footprint: chemically grown Washington apples or organic New Zealand Fujis? Do you wonder which is worse for the climate: processed soy or pastured beef?
Mumia Abu Jamal Now Contributing To Mypeacecity
As the price of gasoline soars, Americans are forced to think in ways that they haven’t in generations: to drive, or not to drive? Do they park the car and opt for public transportation?
“White Cloud’s” Racial History (Part 1 of 3)
World peace must represent universal efforts. Anti-war priorities are first. However, since oppression is similarly destructive, informed and purposeful, some of us believe oppressors must be exposed and humiliated, if not punished.
Mythological Jesus and the Sidetracking of the American Public
It’s been awhile, but my excuses are relevant: I have no money and must work every free second I have to get by. Exaggeration? Yes, but my god things are hard. I don’t even need to mention gas prices, the cost of food is going up, now that I have finished school I must start [...]
Vote Obama*
I feel uncomfortable telling people to vote for Barack Obama without tacking an asterisk onto the end of my plea. I feel disingenuous assuring my friends and family that Barack Obama is different than the other candidates and that once in office